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A review by reads_vicariously
Eidolon Avenue: The First Feast by Jonathan Winn
4.0
I really enjoyed this collection of stories! The first was a 5⭐️, one in the middle was a 3⭐️, and the others were all 4⭐️. Not bad at all for a short story collection!
I love the concept of each story being set in the same otherworldly building. Though Ediolon Avenue works it’s demented machinations a little differently in each tale, these are all stories of people having to deal with the ghosts of their past in varying bizarre and vicious ways. I loved the grotesque imagery (lots of Clive Barker and Silent Hill vibes) and the writing is excellent! In fact the writing is so vivid it made some of the scenes hard to read because they were almost too much (I’ve also never seen so much vomit in a collection of stories haha).
Overall Eidolon Avenue is a fantastically brutal, weird, and mournful collection of dark mortality tales. I don’t think the term “fever dream” has ever been captured so well in literary form. It’s a phantasmagorical blend of human monsters and the ghosts that haunt them, and I certainly hope there will be future feasts to enjoy!
I love the concept of each story being set in the same otherworldly building. Though Ediolon Avenue works it’s demented machinations a little differently in each tale, these are all stories of people having to deal with the ghosts of their past in varying bizarre and vicious ways. I loved the grotesque imagery (lots of Clive Barker and Silent Hill vibes) and the writing is excellent! In fact the writing is so vivid it made some of the scenes hard to read because they were almost too much (I’ve also never seen so much vomit in a collection of stories haha).
Overall Eidolon Avenue is a fantastically brutal, weird, and mournful collection of dark mortality tales. I don’t think the term “fever dream” has ever been captured so well in literary form. It’s a phantasmagorical blend of human monsters and the ghosts that haunt them, and I certainly hope there will be future feasts to enjoy!